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Well, this week marked the last broadcast of BBC World News to information-starved captives behind the bamboo curtain – and that’s just the beginning. President Obama also intends to cut off radio contact to the huddled masses as well, by throwing the switch on Voice of America. For some reason, this makes me think of […]

Unbelievable. President Obama — who some are determined to cast as a Ronald Reagan Redux — doesn’t feel Chinese dissidents need to hear anything that hasn’t been approved by their communist jailers. So, after 42 years, he’s cutting off short-wave Voice of America broadcasts into Tibet, western Xinjiang Province, and other points beyond bamboo curtain. The Obama administration will cancel shortwave radio broadcasts […]